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Punishment Must Fit the Crime: (1) In September, Britain's Leeds Crown Court meted out "punishment" to a 25-year-old man convicted of sneaking into the changing room of China's female swimmers during the Olympics: He was banned -- for five years -- from entering any female toilet or changing room.

(2) In September, the city of Simi Valley, Calif., adopted Halloween restrictions on the residences of its 119 registered sex offenders, forbidding enticing displays and requiring signs reading "No candy or treats at this residence." Shortly after that, several of the sex offenders sued the city for violating their rights, in that none of the offenders' convictions were for molestations that occurred during Halloween. (The lawsuit is pending.) [BBC News, 9-17-2012] [Los Angeles Times, 10-1-2012]

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In October, Britain's Gravesham Borough Council, weary of neighbors' complaints about the noise and smell from Roy Day's brood of 20 birds, ordered him to remove them and find them a new home. Day, a member of the National Pigeon Racing Association, told reporters of the futility of the order: "They are homing pigeons." Said a friend, wherever Day sends them, "(T)hey will just fly straight back to him. ... He has never lost one." [Daily Telegraph, 10-19-2012]